MEDICAL CATEGORY

Prosthetic Leg ConnectorDave King, Kelowna, BC, CanadaThis is a device to aid those who wear prosthetic limbs. The current state of the art is a multilayer system that consists of a cotton sock and a silicone rubber sock that fits over the limb. The prosthesis can attach to the silicone sock by means of a rod and ratchet device.

ELECTRONICS CATEGORY

Cloud and Smartphone AcceleratorJames Awrach, Beverly, MassachusettsGrid-X is a SeaFire innovation that addresses BWDP, and enables faster local and globally distributed supercomputing at lower power and cost.

TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY

Re-Thinking Automotive TPMSIvan Batinic, San Martin, CaliforniaThis is a new approach to implementing vehicular Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) which is more economical and ecological than existing systems mass-deployed in the market to date, with significant advantages, the foremost being the passive non-electronic sending unit (inside the tire) thereby eliminating RF electronics, thermal compensation issues, raising of the RF noise-floor and wasteful consumption of limited Lithium resources for batteries.